Investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. says HPE is likely to take advantage of a robust post-spinoff cash balance to make strategic acquisitions, listing a number of storage, networking and hyper-converged infrastructure companies.

In a live on-stage interview at The Channel Company's Best of Breed Conference, NetApp CEO George Kurian fielded questions on the impact of Dell's EMC acquisition, NetApp's future as an independent company and the storage company's pivot toward data management.

NetApp is seeing strong growth in the parts of the storage market that are most important to customers' future IT needs, including flash storage and hybrid IT environments, Kurian said at the Best of Breed conference. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

Dell EMC World 2016 was part technology crash course, part marketing campaign and part social event where execs, partners and customers could learn, network and soak in the confidence and enthusiasm being exuded by Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and other top leaders.

Lenovo's new converged infrastructure partnership with Nimble Storage is only one step in a plan to gain a major presence in the enterprise data center, a market the company cannot tackle with its server and PC business alone.

Lenovo sees its new ThinkAgile converged infrastructure solution as a big step for the vendor's plans to be an enterprise data center powerhouse, but the company's channel partners said Lenovo still has a lot of work to do.

The wide range of new storage hardware, software, and services showed at VMworld 2016 continues the tradition of making the conference the premier destination for keeping up on the latest storage technology.

RapidScale co-founder and CEO Randy Jeter shared how the cloud service provider is attracting stronger talent and benefiting partners by paying more attention to its workplace, amenities and company culture.